Having millions and even billions of dollars recurring spending, the United States government and its federal agencies are known to be the world’s largest buyer of products and services. The federal ...

In a Feb. 14 letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, hundreds of healthcare organizations urged HHS to refine the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model for Medicare patients and providers ...

The Biden administration has come under pressure in recent weeks to modify, or even pull back entirely, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s Direct Contracting Model, which was originally ...

Given an Orwellian title, Direct Contracting, launched by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), was anything but direct. “Indirect Contracting” would have been a far more accurate name, ...

Over the past several years, the big trend in healthcare has been to inch away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward value-based care, in which a provider's reimbursement is tied more to ...

Following pressure from progressive Democrats and advocacy groups, the Biden administration is redesigning a controversial payment model that aims to introduce value-based payment arrangements in ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has redesigned its Medicare Direct Contracting Model to an Accountable Care Organization model focused on health equity. The ACO Realizing Equity, Access ...

This 2022 survey of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) shows significant growth in non-Medicare value-based contracts and in contracts with downside risk. Objectives: To measure the ...

The General Services Administration is foot-stomping one of the main goals of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul: give more flexibility and authority to contracting officers. Jeffrey Koses, GSA’s senior ...

The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model will phase out December 31, 2022. One model will be in and another two out as CMS and the Biden-Harris Administration seek to shape a health-equity ...